“Ivanka is a mother of three kids and she has influence,” President Trump’s son Eric Trump told The Daily Telegraphin an interview published Tuesday. “I’m sure she said, Listen, this is horrible stuff.’ My father will act in times like that.”

Asked about Ivanka’s role in the decision to strike Syria, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his Tuesday briefing, “There’s no question that Ivanka and others weighed in to him.”

“I think there was a widespread acknowledgement that the images and the actions that had been taken were horrific and required action,” he added.

Americans on both sides of the aisle sounded off their disapproval on Twitter, with many questioning Ivanka’s ability to advise her father on military action.

Ivanka, whose resume includes overseeing a fashion brand and working for the family’s Trump Organization, officially became an assistant to the president two weeks ago after long serving as an informal adviser to her father.

One Twitter user pointed out that if, as Eric Trump suggested, Ivanka’s tweeted heartbreak and horror influenced the president, one of the most ominous what-if’s of the 2016 campaign could now be reality: